| 释义 |
hassocky, a.|ˈhæsəkɪ|
[f. hassock + -y.]
1. Abounding in hassocks or clumps.
1645G. Boate Nat. Hist. Irel. (1726) 62 Hassocky bogs. 1649W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. ix. (1633) 61 Your hassocky morish rough Land. 1863Baring-Gould Iceland xix. 336 A horse cannot keep up with it over the broken hassocky ground.
2. Of the nature of or consisting of calcareous hassock.
1710Brit. Apollo III. No. 70. 2/1 A Rockey or Hassucky sort of Ground. 1881Whitehead Hops 17 The loams..and hassocky detritus of the Hythe beds. 1894B. Fowler in Proc. Geol. Assoc. XIII. 362 Towards Bramshott the beds became more hassocky. |